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<blockquote data-quote="Doctor Futurity" data-source="post: 7692116" data-attributes="member: 10738"><p>Well, while I have had all prior incarnations of Ravenloft and Strahd's appearances in the past, I don't have any of them now, and know that pretty much none of my players (even the old vets) played Ravenloft in the past, so a new book on the subject...even if it's a retelling...has a lot to offer the contemporary crowd. Ironically I have only ever used Strahd and Barovia in my own games, and never run any of the modules "as-is." So even for me this will be "new."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think the White Wolf content for Ravenloft was incredibly elaborate and also not half as useable as I would have liked it. This is likely just my own preferences, but most of what WW did for Ravenloft when they had it was taking 300 pages of content and seeing how they could expand on it into 3,000 pages of additional content that was soundly milked for cash at the expense of useful product. So my hope is that the new book is very efficient at presenting Barovia as a useful domain, one which is easy to use in play, and to stay away from dozens of pages of elaborate background detail that is incredibly difficult to expose in actual play. (Yes, I am a fan of Domains of Dread and other editions of Ravenloft which provided very concise, easy gazetteers with lots of room for DM interpretation and expansion).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doctor Futurity, post: 7692116, member: 10738"] Well, while I have had all prior incarnations of Ravenloft and Strahd's appearances in the past, I don't have any of them now, and know that pretty much none of my players (even the old vets) played Ravenloft in the past, so a new book on the subject...even if it's a retelling...has a lot to offer the contemporary crowd. Ironically I have only ever used Strahd and Barovia in my own games, and never run any of the modules "as-is." So even for me this will be "new." I think the White Wolf content for Ravenloft was incredibly elaborate and also not half as useable as I would have liked it. This is likely just my own preferences, but most of what WW did for Ravenloft when they had it was taking 300 pages of content and seeing how they could expand on it into 3,000 pages of additional content that was soundly milked for cash at the expense of useful product. So my hope is that the new book is very efficient at presenting Barovia as a useful domain, one which is easy to use in play, and to stay away from dozens of pages of elaborate background detail that is incredibly difficult to expose in actual play. (Yes, I am a fan of Domains of Dread and other editions of Ravenloft which provided very concise, easy gazetteers with lots of room for DM interpretation and expansion). [/QUOTE]
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